Happy 2024, Nuggets fans. To ring in the new calendar, here are our New Year’s Resolutions for the defending champions as they try to repeat the glory of 2023.
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope: First-team All-Defense. His teammates are still capitalizing on every possible excuse to chant “first team!” at him in the locker room. Michael Malone even campaigned on Caldwell-Pope’s behalf during an ESPN sideline interview between quarters on Christmas Day, taking advantage of likely the biggest audience the Nuggets will have in any regular-season game. Entering Friday night, KCP was still second in the NBA in defensive field goal percentage (minimum 200 shot attempts against) at 40.